But you'll probably have to also download another 34MB pet of library files to get this 28MB Skype going.

Nah, bro, the executable itself takes up the whole package, surprisingly! The package is mostly documentation, whereas the large executable is in /usr/bin. I have not experienced any libs that needed to be fetched for this package.

But you'll probably have to also download another 34MB pet of library files to get this 28MB Skype going.

Nah, bro, the executable itself takes up the whole package, surprisingly! The package is mostly documentation, whereas the large executable is in /usr/bin. I have not experienced any libs that needed to be fetched for this package.

I have. There were 4 or 5 missing libs, and I got them in that 34MB pet. This is for Dpup Exprimo, YMMV.

I had an earlier version of Skype that worked fine on Wary and Slacko. I tried this one but when I click on any contact, the conversation box automatically appears at the very top of the page with its top bar pushed off the screen. Due to this it's not possible to adjust its position or even close it without killing the box which then makes Skype crash. I should add that I'm using a laptop with a 1024 x 768 resolution. I wonder if anyone has had this problem?

I tried this one but when I click on any contact, the conversation box automatically appears at the very top of the page with its top bar pushed off the screen. Due to this it's not possible to adjust its position

Are you sure about that? What happens if you hold down the LEFT ALT key while depressing the left mouse button on any neutral location inside that box? Alternatively, does that window have its own entry at the foot of your screen? If so, another way to move that window: right click in the line at the foot of your screen, select Move, and slide the mouse

There's more than one way to skin a cat, err, pup. Last edited by Shep on Sat 18 Aug 2012, 06:00; edited 1 time in total

2. Using two ROX-Filer windows,
one at /mnt/home and the other at /usr/share
Now Drag 'n' Drop /mnt/home/skype_staticQT-4.0.0.8
into /usr/share
Select Link (absolute)
then rename the directory /usr/share/skype_staticQT-4.0.0.8 to /usr/share/skype

3. Using two ROX-Filer windows,
one at /usr/share/skype the other at /usr/local/bin (or /usr/bin if that's what you prefer)
Now Drag 'n' Drop the binary file /usr/share/skype/skype
into /usr/local/bin (or /usr/bin if that's what you prefer)
Select Link (absolute)

Change the ROX-Filer window at /usr/local/bin
to /usr/share/applications

4. Right click on /usr/share/skype/skype.desktop
and select: Open as text
Change line 5
from this:

Code:

Icon=skype.png

to this:

Code:

Icon=/usr/share/skype/icons/SkypeBlue_48x48.png

Save the change, then open a console/terminal
and enter this:

Code:

fixmenus

then restart the window manager (JWM whatever)

You should now have a menu entry (under 'Network' in Slacko),
that's pretty much it really, though personally i go one step further.

5. (Optional)
Fire up Skype, and set it up as you normally would,
then exit Skype.

You should now have the following directory: /root/.Skype (set ROX to show hidden files)
this directory contains your Skype user profile (amongst other things),
so i Copy it into /mnt/home
and rename it to: /mnt/home/.Skype4008

Next i delete the original directory: /root/.Skype
then Drag 'n' Drop /mnt/home/.Skype4008
into /root
Select Link (absolute)
then rename the link as .Skype

That's it

Now i can use the same Skype (and profile etc)
in any other frugal installs i have/make
simply by symlinking it from the directories in /mnt/home

I tried this one but when I click on any contact, the conversation box automatically appears at the very top of the page with its top bar pushed off the screen. Due to this it's not possible to adjust its position

Are you sure about that? What happens if you hold down the LEFT ALT key while depressing the left mouse button on any neutral location inside that box? Alternatively, does that window have its own entry at the foot of your screen? If so, another way to move that window: right click in the line at the foot of your screen, select Move, and slide the mouse

There's more than one way to skin a cat, err, pup. :wink:

Yep you're right, or at least when you know what you're doing :P. Thanks for that, the LEFT ALT solution works fine =).

Just installed the 40mb .pet file linked above and it's worked fine, however, I am having a hard time getting my webcams to work at all. They show up as blank, black boxes in the Skype options and I can't get them to display at all in Skype whatsoever.

I have 3 USB webcams, all of which work in guvcview and Linphone but only 1 of them works in Skype so it seems to be a bit of a case of some do and some don't.

One thing to mention is that with the one that does work, if I go into the options menu and tick the "enable video" box the image will not appear in the black test area straight away. I have to apply the changes then quit and restart Skype and then when I go into options again the image in the test area works._________________Oscar in England

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